February 15, 2008
Scott Houston, the state's top high school pole-vaulter, signed a letter of intent Wednesday with North Carolina, making his college choice official in a ceremony at Northwest Guilford. Joining him in signing at Northwest was Anna Gillespie, who announced...
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February 9, 2008
GREENSBORO -- They filled the school auditorium Friday night to celebrate Freddy Johnson's more than 30 years and 700 victories as Greensboro Day boys basketball coach.
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February 1, 2008
Even while his job title left room for doubt, Mark Saunders performed as though he was and always would be in charge of the Grimsley football team. Saunders' patience and perseverance have been rewarded. It was announced Wednesday night at the Whirlies' t...
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January 25, 2008
A bench-clearing fight last Friday between the Atkins and Reidsville boys basketball teams has resulted in the dismissal for the remainder of the season of four Reidsville players and shorter suspensions for 13 other players involved in the altercation th...
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A bench-clearing fight last Friday between the Atkins and Reidsville boys basketball teams has resulted in the dismissal for the remainder of the season of four Reidsville players and shorter suspensions for 13 other players involved in the altercation th...
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January 22, 2008
GREENSBORO -- There likely are few high school basketball teams composed entirely of freshmen and sophomores that could hold their own against the athletic 18- and 19-year-olds on Mount Zion Academy's roster. But, then, ninth-grader Jacob Lawson points ou...
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January 18, 2008
Aaron Goulbourne has been playing basketball since he was 6 years old. The Western Guilford senior has worked his way back from serious injuries suffered in a May 4 auto accident to get on the court and help lead the Hornets to a surprising 9-6 record. Go...
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The Greensboro Coliseum will be host Monday to perhaps the most compelling high school basketball matchup the city has seen since Reyshawn Terry and R.J. Reynolds tried unsuccessfully to defend LeBron James in 2003. Brandon Jennings, the consensus No. 1 p...
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January 15, 2008
Dudley senior Tory Warren has decided to follow the same college road as his father, albeit a very short one.Warren, a 6-foot-3, 175-pound receiver and defensive back, has verbally committed to play football at N.C. A&T, where his father, Thomas Warre...
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January 12, 2008
GREENSBORO -- Gene Banks has always considered basketball therapy, a place where he could escape life's trials and tribulations. But lately, problems on his boys team at Smith have contributed to the first-year coach's stress. Banks decided by Wednesday......
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January 11, 2008
GREENSBORO -- The rhythmic clapping got a little faster and a little louder as Tevin Henderson closed the scoring gap on the wrestling mat. The Dudley freshman was now, at the start of the third period, losing to his Northern Guilford opponent by two poin...
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GREENSBORO -- A few days after Smith jettisoned its football coach, the Eagles lost the first-year coach of their struggling boys basketball team. Gene Banks met Wednesday with athletics director Charlie Barnes and principal Noah Rogers and told them he w...
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January 5, 2008
McLEANSVILLE -- Lifted to victory by a late Jacob Lawson basket, Northern Guilford found a nice stop Friday night on one of high school basketball's longest road trips. The Nighthawks, playing the 11th of 14 straight games away from home, came away with a...
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January 4, 2008
TRINITY -- Tim Kelly's Trinity basketball team was enjoying a 54-27 lead in the third quarter Wednesday night against visiting Andrews, but the Bulldogs' veteran coach appeared anxious. From courtside, Kelly tried to light a fire under his players by taki...
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December 29, 2007
GREENSBORO -- Same old story? Well, not if you see basketball the way Greensboro Day coach Freddy Johnson does. Yes, his Bengals outlasted Dudley in the Little Four Invitational championship game for the third straight year. And Friday night's 51-46 victo...
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December 28, 2007
GREENSBORO -- It's a familiar finals matchup, but with a few new players filling important roles. Playing a huge part -- physically and statistically -- in Greensboro Day's 66-51 Little Four semifinal victory Thursday against Northeast Guilford was 6-foot...
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December 26, 2007
After a trip to Arizona to face one of the top basketball teams in the country, Dudley will enter the Little Four Invitational today with a chance to play the top-seeded team in the county. The Pizza Hut Little Four at the Greensboro Coliseum Special Even...
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December 17, 2007
CHAPEL HILL -- Dudley's knock-'em-dead defense took it this far. Quarterback Ricky Lewis Jr. and a suddenly dynamic offense took the Panthers the rest of the way to their first NCHSAA football state title. Dudley looked like an offensive juggernaut at tim...
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December 14, 2007
It was supposed to be the first time Gene Banks coached Smith in a game against rival Dudley. Turns out, neither Banks nor Panthers coach David Price attended last Friday's basketball game at Dudley. Banks was in Philadelphia with his ailing mother, whose...
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December 13, 2007
The North Carolina Gaters are contemplating the best way forward for the state's largest AAU boys basketball organization while trying to cope with the loss of longtime Gaters president and coach Vic Sapp, who was found dead early Wednesday morning in the...
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December 12, 2007
Vic Sapp, president of the Greensboro Gaters Amateur Athletic Union basketball organization, was found dead this morning in the garage of his Chapel Hill home. A Chapel Hill police spokesman said Wednesday that the cause of death has not been confirmed a...
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December 10, 2007
CHAPEL HILL -- There are the powerful emotions that come from winning the state title after three years of heartbreak. That's Levon Curtis flying a blue "WA" flag up and down the sideline, a big smile on his face, and diving into the crowd to ce...
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December 9, 2007
CHAPEL HILL -- Dudley's knock 'em-dead defense took it this far. Quarterback Ricky Lewis Jr. and a suddenly dynamic offense took the Panthers the rest of the way to their first state football title since they joined the N.C. High School Athletic Associati...
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December 8, 2007
CHAPEL HILL -- Dudley's knock-'em-dead defense took it this far. Quarterback Ricky Lewis Jr. and a suddenly dynamic offense took the Panthers the rest of the way to their first NCHSAA football state title. Dudley looked like an offensive juggernaut at tim...
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CHAPEL HILL -- This time, Western Alamance wasn't stopped a yard short. No 70-yard trick play did in the Warriors. And there was no overtime interception to deny them the 3-A state title. In their fourth try in four years, Hal Capps' Warriors decided they...
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